A campaign staffer for Hillary Rodham Clinton claimed in an e-mail that moneyman Norman Hsu was “completely legit” weeks before it was revealed he was a fugitive.

“I can tell you with 100 [sic] certainty that Norman Hsu is NOT involved in a ponzi scheme,” wrote Samantha Wolf, an official involved in fund-raising from the Western U.S., in an e-mail in June after she was approached about the possibility that Hsu’s financial dealings were shady, according to the Los Angeles Times.

“He is COMPLETELY legit,” she added of Hsu.

It was revealed in the last few weeks that Hsu was a fugitive who spent 15 years on the lam in connection with a “no contest” plea in California for a Ponzi scheme, a phony financial gambit that involves taking in money from investors for an enterprise that doesn’t exist.

Wolf was reportedly contacted by California Democratic Party officials after an Irvine-based businessman named Jack Cassidy, who’d learned of Hsu’s business ventures from a pal, reached out to contacts within the party, and inside Team Clinton.

On June 18, Cassidy wrote to a party official with an urgent warning in an e-mail, saying, “There is a significant probability that a man using the name of Norman Hsu is running a Ponzi scheme . . . The math does not work!”

That prompted the Democratic operative to turn to Wolf, who wrote back that such allegations were baseless.

So Cassidy tried Wolf himself, the Times reported.

“I am more than ever convinced that a man claiming to be a big fund-raiser for Hillary Clinton is running a Ponzi scheme,” he wrote, adding that he was concerned someone he knew could “lose her home” over the possible scam, adding that he feared Hsu was “using your good name in vain.”

Wolf never responded, Cassidy told the paper. Cassidy did not respond to repeated requests for comment by The Post.

Wolf is no longer working for the campaign, but her departure was unrelated to the Hsu fiasco, a campaign insider said. Clinton adviser Howard Wolfson said that Cassidy’s warn ings were addressed.

“The concerns prompted another search of publicly available information that un fortunately did not reveal the decade-plus old warrant,” he said.

The San Mateo County bench warrant stemmed from the 1992 case. That year, he fled before his sentencing hearing in a scheme involving a phony contract to buy and resell latex gloves.

Hsu is currently being investigated by the feds in connection with questions about whether he reimbursed people to make contributions to candidates – a violation of the law – as well as his shady business deals.

Once those investigations came to light, Clinton – for whom Hsu was a major “bundler” of other contributions – announced she would return $850,000 he raised for her presidential campaign.

Officials would not rule out the possibility of resoliciting the donors who Hsu bundled from. Hsu remained under guarded arrest at St. Mary’s Hospital in Grand Junction, Colo., yesterday.

He was nabbed last week after he skipped town before a hearing in the old 1992 case, forfeiting $2 million in bail money.